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Elvis Santa Hats and Other Bad Ideas

Back in July 2010, ElvisBlog critiqued the items offered by EPE in their big summer sale, “12 Days of Christmas in July” . Some item drew praise, while others were blasted. Continue reading

Bad Hair Day / Good Hair Day — You Call It

My friend Alan Hanson writes a wonderful blog about Elvis Presley. He and I have often come up with similar ideas, but usually they are years apart after time has dulled our memory of the other’s work. This week we both independently decided to do a blog on Elvis’ hair. Continue reading

Elvis Scrapbooks — Part 4

This will be the last installment of the series on Elvis scrapbooks. Here’s a look at several more Elvis scrapbooks I found on the internet. Continue reading

Two Recent Celebrity Deaths — The Elvis Connections

Elvis’ exalted position in the entertainment industry made it possible for him to meet many celebrities in his lifetime. When I run across photographs of Elvis and other stars, I save them in a file for future use. Continue reading

Critiquing the 12 Days of Christmas in July

If you have ever bought anything from www.ShopElvis.com, you probably get their frequent e-mail announcements of items they are promoting. If you are like me, you have received lots of these.
However, I’ve never seen anything like the sales blitz they put on the past two weeks. It was called 12 Days of Christmas in July. Continue reading

Elvis Has Never Left the Movie Theater — Part 2

Last week we started our look at Elvis’ presence in the movies. Not the old films where he was an actor, but new ones where an allusion is made to Elvis. The research for this was done by John Beifuss, movie critic for the Memphis Commercial Appeal. We can presume his job enabled him to see just about every movie that came to town, and since that town is the home of Elvis, he noted every connection to him in these films. Continue reading

75 Reasons We (Still) Love Elvis

Like all of you, I am a big Elvis fan who recently celebrated his 75th birthday on January 8. Perhaps you had an experience like I did on that day. A number of friends sent me e-mails telling me to check out Elvis links on the web they thought would interest me. You got some, too, didn’t you? Continue reading

The Tiny Elvis-head Challenge

I have grumbled here before about small Elvis toys, dolls, figurines, etc, that do not look like Elvis. However, I keep hoping someone will meet what might be called the tiny Elvis-head challenge Continue reading

In Search of Historic Elvis

My son gave me Rolling Stone – Cover to Cover,a four-disc DVD set showing every page of every issue of Rolling Stone magazine from 1967 to 2007. Continue reading

An Udderly Stupid Elvis Blog

Two weeks ago, I posted an article that chronicled an element of Elvis’ stature and importance – his painting in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Hopefully, that respectful column will be enough to balance out this week’s post, which admittedly is stupid and irrelevant. Continue reading